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CurtisSerVaas comments on If you could push a button to eliminate one cognitive bias, which would you choose? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CurtisSerVaas 12 April 2015 11:47:18PM 1 point [-]

I was about to speculate as to how many biases could be reduced to "Wishful Thinking". Certainly, most (if not all) of them are instances of being a "cognitive miser."